The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-29
JoUENaLIsTlC IGNORANCE.

The Chicago Laer-OceGn, which has
gone anti NJ ormon mad, displays its ig-
norarce and venom at tbs same time
in an editorial article which appears in
the latest issue of the paper that has
been recei ed. Three or tour times
since the Edmunds-Tucker bill passed
the House. the Inter. Ocean has ap-
proved aud applauded it editorially,
and now it comes out with an article
expressing fear that the House may do
Something that will kill the measure. 1t
speaks of it as if the bill had passed the
Senate, land says 1.-THE sentiment against
Aormonism is strong enough to stife
open opposition to the Senate bill, "
which was a very good one as it left
the Senate" just as if it we're not in
fact House bill thatthe editor had ali
all along been indorsing. The inter
Ocean says: Zone (amendment, to
which the Senate appears averse, has
already been added by the House COM
mittee. is purpose. is TO place the
power of appointing all NUM-
cipal and Territorial officers, num-
bering 2,400, in the hands of the Terri
torial Governor. The Senate bill places
the power in the hands of the Pres
ident." Now, as a matter eff fact the
Senate bill lett the power to appoint"
these officers with the people who we're
to elect, and the bill which passed the
House divided the power to appoint
between the President and the Gov
ernor. The Inter-OGedn proceeds in its
ignorance. of the matter of which it
speaks, and says: THE object of the
Senate bill is to procure the appoint
ment of men who are nationalists; the
object of the Mormon lobby is to so
modify the bill as to secure the at least
partial appointment of devotees of the
church. The President of the United
States would seem to be less open to
local influence than a Territorial Gov
ernor. The one has reached the top
most round of life; the other, if am
bilious, is longing to climb higher. A
Territorial Governor with 9, 400 appoint
ments in his control would be very
important, and might be very danger
Gus, political force. No Governor of a
State has such patronage. The House
committee amendment would confer
upon Governor powers which are but
slightly less than those of President"
The above illustrates the ignorance of
the average editor of everything Nor |
mon. He thinks it popular to abuse
the Saints, and drives ahead, cutting |
and slashing away, without realizing |
that he is making himself ridiculous
and displaying ignorance of the most
prominent character. The Inter. Ocean
is relied upon by the anti Mormon
league of Utah to back up all its sug-
gestions, and the editor thinks he is
doing it in his article from which we
quote above, when through his ignor-
anoe he is hitting the Gentle ring here
one of the hardest blows that it has
yet received. The House amend
ment" which the Inte--Ocean fears will
inirre the chances of the Senate" bills
passage is the provision in the bill most
priced by the snti-Mormon agitators;
1t is for that that they pleaded and
begged, and out of that they expect to
reap much. To have this pet provision
now denounced by their friend and
champion, and to have 1t denounced
through rank and inexcusable ig.
norance. will prove anything but en-
coESeging TO the greedy fellows who
are so impatiently awaiting the passage
of the bill. The Inter Ocean is right in
its deRunciation of a provision con-
ferriag such extraordinary power on q
Governor, bat it is right through
blunder and by reason of its ignorance.
l. imagIHes it is doing the anti-Mormon
cause good service, whereas it is hurting
that cause in soNfsr as it has influence
with Congress.